I am a Political Scientist by training, a Political Theorist, whose research focuses on Classical Political Thought as well as on International Relations and the History of International Political Thought. 

I received my PhD from the University of Toronto, my MSc degree from the London School of Economics, and my BA from Bowdoin College. I have taught at both Bowdoin College and the University of Toronto, where I was the inaugural Bloom Memorial Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Classical Thought. I have received research support from the Center for International Cooperation of Freie Universität Berlin and from the Excellence Cluster TOPOI as well from the Earhart Foundation, and I am a regular Member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. My work has appeared in various volumes on Thucydides, and in 2017 my first book, Character and Contest – Thucydides on the Outbreak of War has been published from Oxford University Press.

Since 2017, I am Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, but stay affiliated with the project as a regular Visiting Scholar.

Overall, I have wide-ranging research interests in Greek conceptions of human nature, which are political (or moral) psychologies, and more specialized interests in the phenomenon of political motion – war and civil war – as it was conceptualized by historians and thinkers of the 5th and 4th Centuries BC in Greece. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the project “Bewegung als Prinzip – Dynamik und Transformation als politische Impulse im 5. Jh. v. Chr.”I will primarily examine political breakdown – or international and domestic motion and commotion – in the literature of 5th and 4th Centuries with a focus on the political philosophical discourses surrounding motion and change.

Selected publications

2017    Character and Contest – Thucydides on the Outbreak of War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016    “The Regime (politeia) in Thucydides.” Forthcoming in theOxford Handbook of Thucydides, eds. Ryan Balot, Sara Forsdyke, and Edith Foster. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015    “Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of Thucydides” in In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin, ed. Andrea Radasanu. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 51-64.

2015    “The Straussian Thucydides” in A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides, eds. Christine Lee and Neville Morley. London: Wiley - Blackwell, 278-295.

Journalism

“America vs. China: Is War Simply Inevitable?” The National Interest (online), October 18^th, 2015